Eligio Bishop biography: 13 things about Atlanta, Georgia man

Eligio Lee Bishop is an American man from Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States. He is a former model and exotic entertainer and he attended school to become a barber.

Who is Eligio Bishop?

Aside from Atlanta, Bishop has lived in other parts of Georgia including Augusta, Brookhaven, Conyers, Decatur and Rex. He previously lived in Willingboro, New Jersey, USA, in New York USA, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA and in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.

Known as Natureboy, Bishop is the leader of the black counterculture group Melanation, which was later known as Carbon Nation. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. In 2009, he was arrested for forcible entry in Georgia.
2. In 2011, he was charged with theft and was arrested for aggravated battery.
3. In 2014, he filed for a business license and opened his own shop in Georgia.
4. In June 2016, he visited Honduras.
5. In 2017, he went to Costa Rica with his Carbon Nation followers including Kayla Reid, then 21, of Newfoundland, Canada. Later that year, the group was forced to leave the Central American country.
6. In February 2019, former Carbon Nation member Velvet Gabriella Marquez gave birth to their daughter Eliana Bishop Marquez.
7. In June 2019, he was detained in Nicaragua.
8. On June 7, 2020, he and 20 other Carbon Nation members including Kendra Carter went to Puna, Hawaii, USA. On June 8, 2020, they went to the beach where he petted a sea turtle. They broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic so they were arrested except Carter and another female member so they could remain with their children without involving child protective services.
9. On June 15, 2020, he and two other Carbon Nation members were released from jail in Hawaii after pleading no contest to violating the state’s quarantine. The remaining 18 other members were later released and they were all sent back to California, USA.
10. On the evening of April 13, 2022, the DeKalb County Police Department’s Special Victims Unit arrested him at a home he rents on Arbor Chase, Cumming, Georgia. He was charged with rape, false imprisonment and sending sexual explicit messages and booked into the DeKalb County Jail in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia.
11. In April 2023, he turned 41.
12. On November 3, 2023, he appeared in DeKalb County Superior Court and was denied bond.
13. On March 1, 2024, he was found guilty of rape, false imprisonment and three counts of prohibition on nude or sexually explicit electronic transmissions. A judge sentenced him to life without parole plus 10 years.